Topic: Russia

Flu epidemic shuts all Moscow schools

Moscow and two other cities shut their schools for a week Saturday and urged children not to play in groups in a bid to stamp out the worst flu outbreak to hit central Russia in more than a decade.The Moscow education department's ...

Russia records first swine flu death: medic

A doctor recently arrived from Bulgaria died after contracting swine flu, becoming Russia's first fatality from the A(H1N1) virus, a Russian medical sciences' academy official said on Sunday. "The day before she died, her tests were handed over to our group, and ...

South Africa, India suffer first swine flu deaths

AIDS-ravaged South Africa on Monday announced its first swine flu victim as Indian media reported a first death on the sub-continent and Russia warned football fans not to travel to Wales.As the pandemic sows ever-deeper fears for public health across more territories, ...

Britain bids to quell flu fears

Britain has announced plans to vaccinate half the population against swine flu by year's end, as health officials in Russia warned the virus could spread across the vast country in the coming months.As more than 100 British students and teachers were quarantined ...

Government bids to quell flu fears

The government has announced plans to vaccinate half the population against swine flu by year's end, as health officials in Russia warned the virus could spread across the vast country in the coming months.As more than 100 British students and teachers were ...

Russia lifts pork ban from U.S. Wisconsin, Canada

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would lift a ban on live pigs and raw pork imports from the U.S. state of Wisconsin and Canada's Ontario province from July 18 due to what it said was a " stabilization" of ...

Australia allows in swine flu ship

Australia on Saturday invoked an emergency decree to allow a cruise ship with a suspected swine flu outbreak to dock, as the number of A(H1N1) cases worldwide crossed the 15,500 mark.Queensland health authorities declared a public health emergency after port officials in ...
Mexico reported two more swine flu deaths on Tuesday, as World Health Organization scientists asked if it had moved too quickly to declare the outbreak a pandemic.Authorities in Mexico said the death toll had risen to 85, and infected cases rose to ...
The WHO wants scientists to help clear up the criteria needed for declaring a pandemic as swine flu cases worldwide soared to nearly 13,000 Tuesday, spreading further in the Middle East. "We are trying to see what kind of adjustments must be ...

Swine Flu Gets a Makeover

The World Health Organization, CDC and US government are no longer using the term " The virus will now be referred to by it's technical name, which is H1N1. Egypt recently ordered that all pigs in that country be slaughtered in a ...
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